Don’t you love buffets? Everybody can get something that they like. If you don’t like something, then don’t get it. It’s that simple. We all like to choose what we eat. We do not like even from a young age that we have to eat something.
Do we apply this same thought process to the Word of God? Do we pick and choose what we want to adhere to? Do we want to be healed, but not go and sin no more? Do we want blessings that are pressed down, shaken together and running over. But not give and it shall be? Do we want the grace of God, but not come out from among them and be ye separate? Do we want Divine visitation, but not self preparation?
You see it’s the whole gospel, not just part of it. Now you may be thinking that things have changed. It’s not the same anymore. What would Paul say?
Galatians 1:6-7 NET
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel
7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:11 KJV For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life…(John 14:6 KJV). Not a way, not a truth.
Jesus comes across the rich young ruler and the young man asks, “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus gives him a list of commandments. The young man replies that he has kept all these. Jesus then tells him that he lacks one thing. One thing, that one thing had him hung up. Everybody’s thing or things may be different. The point is this, we don’t get to pick and choose what parts of the Bible that we want. We don’t get to pick the version of Jesus that we want. I think of all the portrayals of Jesus in the entertainment industry there are now. Each one paints Him a little different. Be careful that you aren’t sucked into a false belief about Jesus that you observed from Hollywood and not the Bible. Because Jesus doesn’t change.
Hebrews 13:8 KJV Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
He never changes. The gospel never changes. Believe in Jesus as the scripture hath said (John 7:38). Live for Jesus. Follow the gospel, the whole gospel, not just the parts that you like.
Matthew 23:23 KJV these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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